On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:43:46 +0200, Eiko Bleicher said:

>One of my initializers can fail and thus it should return nil. Consider
>the following example:
>
>-(id) initWithBool:(BOOL)ok
>{
>   if (self = [super init])
>   {
>      if (!ok) {
>         return nil; // Point of interest
>      }
>   }
>   return self;
>}
>
>Does this code leak? I am inclined to think I need to call [self
>release] before returning nil, but I am yet to see a piece of example
>code for this. Or is my approach stupid? :-)
>
>Running in no-GC environment here.

As others have said: yes, you leak.  But the solution is not to call
[self release], what you should do is call [super dealloc].  See here
for a previous discussion of this topic:

<http://lists.apple.com/archives/Objc-language/2008/Sep/msg00133.html>

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Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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